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Cycling injuries ‘treble in six years’

March 6 2012, 12:01am, The Times

The number of badly injured cyclists treated by a major London hospital has almost trebled over six years, it emerged today.

In the first study to link the injuries sustained by cyclists with the vehicles that caused them, experts examined the cases of 265 cyclists brought into the Royal London Hospital and found that HGVs were most likely to kill or seriously injure a cyclist, often through severe injuries and blood loss in the torso, pelvis and limbs.

Over the six year period, the number of cyclist casualties had risen from 24 casualties and no deaths in 2004, to 69 casualties and eight deaths in 2009.

The study also found that though cyclists are more likely to survive a crash with a car, they are…